Alma Grabada is an artist's book born of a deep encounter: that of two lives and two languages of printmaking, mezzotint and woodblock engraving, that choose to inhabit a common territory. Far from being a reciprocal illustration, the images in this edition bear witness to an everyday dialogue, material and affective, in which each technique keeps its own identity and finds resonance in the other.

Carolina Da Silva's mezzotints emerge from the depth of black. Through the patient work of graining, scraping and burnishing, her images gradually rise out of the shadow, revealing atmospheres where time, fragility and the human condition take on a tangible presence. Her practice understands engraving as the memory of its own making.

Beside them, Marcelo Kopp's woodblock engravings travel the opposite road. Engraved entirely with the burin on selected woods, they are born of the precise incision that removes matter so that light may appear. His work combines the symbolic and the contemporary, projecting the historical procedures of relief printing toward a present-day gaze. In an act of total dedication to the craft, Marcelo produces and edits this book using paper he made himself by hand.

In these pages, metal and wood, the hollow and the relief, become accomplices through the imprint. Each print safeguards the physical record of the hands that engraved the matrices, of the shared pressure at the press and of the life-time given side by side. Alma Grabada thus proposes a journey born of patience and contemplation: the reflection of two gazes that accompany each other, one that makes light spring from the cut and another that slowly reveals it from the darkness.

This edition consists of 25 copies printed in May 2026 on handmade paper made from cellulose fibers.
The set is made up of 20 printing matrices:
13 woodblocks engraved in palo blanco,
2 woodblock engravings in maple and
1 woodblock engraving in pear wood, all printed
on a vertical flatbed screw press.
It also includes
4 mezzotints made on zinc plates,
printed in intaglio on a copperplate press.
The woodblock engravings were carved with the burin by
Marcelo Kopp.
The mezzotints were grained with a rocker and burnished by Carolina Da Silva.